Journal of Free Speech Law: “Cancel Culture on Campus: A Critical Analysis,” by Prof. Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
Just published as part of the “Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech” symposium; here’s the Introduction (the article is here):
To what extent are free speech and open discussion being stifled on college campuses?
This question inspires sharp disagreement. Where some see a serious problem, others deny that there is any genuine reason for concern. Notably, for example, my fellow panelist Professor Mary Anne Franks has criticized what she calls “the myth of the censorious campus” while decrying the “false narrative” of political intolerance on college campuses. Professor Jeffrey Adam Sachs similarly writes of “the myth” of a campus free speech crisis, which he associates with a kind of “moral panic” due to conservative “hysteria.” In a piece entitled “Free Speech on Campus Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You,” Columbia University president Lee Bollinger, a noted scholar of free speech and the First Amendment, dismisses concerns about the current situation
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